Our interpretation method
Somnilizer is a reference for reflection, not a system for decoding dreams with certainty. This page explains what each entry does, what it does not claim, and who is responsible for corrections.
Scope and responsibility
Somnilizer is written and maintained by Taegye Lab, a one-person web studio. Taegye Lab is responsible for the text that appears on the site and for handling corrections. The entries are not clinical assessments, individualized readings, or diagnoses, and the site does not present dream interpretation as an exact science.
How an entry is organized
Each entry starts with one central symbol or event, then separates concrete variations into scenarios. A calm animal, an attacking animal, and an animal that escapes may lead to different prompts for reflection. The reader's feelings, recent experiences, relationships, and personal associations remain more important than any general dictionary meaning.
The dream image
The scene you woke with is the material Somnilizer works on. Hold that picture as it was — the room, the body, the feeling — rather than hunting for a fortune. After Maxwell Maltz’s servo-mechanism, the nervous system steers toward a vivid inner picture; an entry is a comparison against that picture, not a verdict and not a prediction. Where the page and the dream do not match, the mismatch is useful. It is an error signal, not a failed prophecy. In Psycho-Cybernetics terms the dream image is the goal picture the nervous system steers toward; the entry only reports mismatch. Readers who want a fortune should look elsewhere; this method page exists to keep the dictionary honest about what it can and cannot do.
The psychological perspective
Psychological sections discuss broad themes commonly used for reflection, such as stress, memory, emotion, relationships, change, and a sense of control. They do not assign a fixed meaning to a symbol or infer a mental-health condition. A recurring or distressing dream that affects sleep or daily life is a reason to seek appropriate professional support, not a reason to rely more heavily on an online interpretation.
Cultural and traditional perspectives
Cultural sections describe symbols as traditions and inherited interpretations, not as verified predictions. Different communities may read the same symbol in conflicting ways, so Somnilizer keeps those perspectives distinct rather than declaring one universally correct. General entries are concise summaries, not academic literature reviews; when a dedicated tradition page discusses a named text, the relevant references are identified in that page's text.
Corrections and practical limits
The maintainer updates entries when a factual, translation, routing, or wording problem is found. Readers can report a specific page and passage through the contact page. Somnilizer does not use a dream to recommend medical, financial, legal, safety, or other high-impact decisions, and it does not claim that a dream predicts future events.